A collective musical experiment based on the vast sound archives of the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva.
Extra Muros – Switzerland is a 12-track vinyl compilation composed in the framework of the 2022 Extra Muros music residency, which took place within the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva. Within the centre for creation and archiving of the Geneva-based museum, the musicians were able to discover one of Europe's largest sonic archives dedicated to field recordings and regrouping over 120.000 entries and had a rare occasion to experiment on traditional instruments as well as contribute to the creation of a new unique sonic database.
Extra Muros is a creative residency program for experimental electronic music artists from all over the world that finds place once a year in changing locations (2019 Kenya, 2020 Italy, 2021 Bulgaria, 2022 Persian Gulf, 2022 Switzerland). In a temporary music studio equipped with SMEM gear, artists meet and produce together working on new sonorities and productions that will be then released on vinyl.
